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Laura Kemp FRIDAY, September 2, saw Cudeca Hospice support ers in the Competa area dressed to impress for a Night Under The Stars at the stunning Balcon De Competa Hotel to raise funds for this amazing charity and celebrate its 30year anniversary. Supporter and volunteer of the Cudeca Hospice, Cindy Jones, organised this beautiful event, which included sangria on ar rival, a bar, an auction, and music from amazing local band The Dawgs. The local community and businesses got togeth er to promote the event, with the Balcon Hotel, Al ternative Properties and Todo Express helping to sell and promote tickets. Cindy said at the event: “I have worked for other cancer charities and the majority of their funds goes to administration and salaries, however, Cudeca only gives 4 per cent of its funds to admin.
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NIGHT UNDER THE STARS
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Cindy Jones and Esther Raez of Cudeca at the event. Alexandra Cucu, the new Miss Universe Andalucia.
RAISING FUNDS: The guests were dressed to impress at the charity event.
I would like to thank Jill Thompson, Helen Sander son, Josie, Kevin, The Bal con Hotel, Todo Express and Alternative Properties for all of their help with the event, it has been a re al community effort.” Esther Raez, who works in communications and fundraising at Cudeca said: “I am absolutely
thrilled with the amount of people here, it’s a huge turnout and I am so glad. We are so proud of Cindy, her speech was great and it was lovely to see her on the stage, she is a great volunteer and ambas sador who has raised about €40,000 since join ing us. The English com munity here have been
wonderful.” Auctioneer, Alick Howard said: “I have known about Cudeca for around 16 years and have had friends who have used this wonderful chari ty for end of life care. They do really great work and I am honoured to be the auctioneer at this event under the stars!”
ipality from 6pm. There will also be a range of water activities with paddle surfboards, pedal boats and canoes, all of which require pri or registration, and next to the Balcón Mirador, from 12pm to 2pm, peo ple can enjoy going down the longest beach slide in Andalucia. The Day of the Tourist will end with a big gala
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Day of the Tourist Tamsin Brown ON Saturday, September 10, Torrox will be cele brating its Day of the Tourist with a full pro gramme of activities, in cluding a guided tour of the old town and a fami lyorientated ceramics workshop at the Inter pretation Centre of the Torrox lighthouse. The tourist train will be trav elling around the munic
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FULL PROGRAMME: Presentation of the Day of the Tourist.
at 10pm on the Balcón Mirador. The music for this gala will be provid ed by Chenoa, who will perform in front of the more than 10,000 peo ple that the town hall expects to attend. The grand finale will be a huge firework display.
MISS COSTA DEL SOL, 20yearold Alexandra Cucu, was crowned Miss Universe Andalucia 2022 in the fi nal gala that took place in the auditorium of El Ma juelo park in Almuñecar on August 31. Alexandra Cu cu studies theatre and works as a model, actress and dancer. The first runnerup was Nerea Villalobos (Miss Huelva) and the second runnerup was María Victo ria Medina (Miss Jaen). Miss Tourism went to Marisa Molina (Miss Alhaurin el Grande). The title of Miss Congeniality went to Carmen Loubet (Miss Grana da). Miss Photogenic also went to Alexandra Cucu (Miss Costa del Sol) and Miss Smile went to Rosa García (Miss Costa Tropical). The gala brought together 16 young representa tives from different provinces and regions of Andalu cia and the new Miss Universe Andalucia will now travel to Tenerife to represent the autonomous com munity in the Miss Universe Spain competition, the winner of which will participate in Miss Universe.